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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 17
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Ezekiel shows in a parable how Israel, while subject to Babylon, wrongfully sought help from Egypt—Yet the Lord will bring forth, in the last days, a goodly tree from the cedars of Lebanon.
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And</span> the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
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And say, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; A great <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 48: 40.">eagle</a> with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
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He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">carried</a> it into a land of <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/4b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB trade, or traders.">traffick</a>; he set it in a city of merchants.
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He took also of the seed of the land, and <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">planted</a> it in a fruitful field; he placed <i>it</i> by great waters, <i>and</i> set it <i>as</i> a willow tree.
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And it grew, and became a spreading <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vineyard of the Lord.">vine</a> of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
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There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
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It was planted in a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jacob 5: 25, 43.">good</a> soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
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Say thou, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Shall it prosper?  shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?  it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
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Yea, behold, <i>being</i> planted, shall it prosper?  shall it not utterly wither, when the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 18: 17.">east</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 19: 12.">wind</a> toucheth it?  it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
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&#182; Moreover the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Say now to the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 12: 9.">rebellious</a> house, Know ye not what these <i>things mean?</i>  tell <i>them,</i> Behold, the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 11 (11-12); 2 Kgs. 25: 6 (1-7); Omni 1: 15.">king</a> of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;
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And hath taken of the king’s <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 19: 14.">seed</a>, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Chr. 36: 13.">oath</a> of him: he hath also taken the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/17/13c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 15.">mighty</a> of the land:
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That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, <i>but</i> that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
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But he <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 20; 2 Chr. 36: 13; Jer. 52: 3.">rebelled</a> against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people.  Shall he prosper?  shall he escape that doeth such <i>things?</i>  or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
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<i>As</i> I live, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, surely in the place <i>where</i> the king <i>dwelleth</i> that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, <i>even</i> with him in the midst of <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Babylon</a> he shall die.
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Neither shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 44: 30.">Pharaoh</a> with <i>his</i> mighty <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 37: 7.">army</a> and great company <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/17/17c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR help him.">make</a> for him in the war, by casting up <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/17/17d" mark="d" type="D" title="OR siegeworks.">mounts</a>, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
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Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these <i>things,</i> he shall not escape.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; <i>As</i> I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
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And I will spread my <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 13; Ezek. 12: 13; Hosea 7: 12.">net</a> upon him, and he shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 21: 23.">taken</a> in my snare, and I will bring him to <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/17/20c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Babylon</a>, and will <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/17/20d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ezek. 20: 35.">plead</a> with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
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And all his fugitives with all his <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 12: 14.">bands</a> shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Zech. 2: 6.">scattered</a> toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have spoken <i>it.</i> 
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&#182; Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; I will also take of the highest <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Omni 1: 15 (14-17); Mosiah 25: 2; Hel. 8: 21.">branch</a> of the high cedar, and will set <i>it;</i> I will crop off from the top of his young <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jacob 5: 24 (22-24).">twigs</a> a tender one, and will <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/17/22c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">plant</a> <i>it</i> upon an high mountain and eminent:
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In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
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And all the trees of the field shall know that I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have brought down the high tree, have <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/17/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 20: 33; D&C 112: 8 (3-8).">exalted</a> the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> have spoken and have <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/17/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 36: 36.">done</a> <i>it.</i>
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